Relationships

A PhD candidate at a British university has hypothesised his chances of meeting Mrs Right are one in 285,000. Not very promising is it? A tongue-in-cheek paper written by Peter Backus at the University of Warwick used the Drake equation to determine his chances of meeting the love of his life. The formula was originally […]

Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O’Neal were the Angelina and Brad of their day until their stars were tarnished by drugs, infidelity and family pathology. In her last days, as Farrah lay dying of cancer, we shared Ryan’s vigil, learning the true struggles and breakthroughs of their 30-year romance. In the final days of Farrah Fawcett’s […]

Twice voted the sexiest man alive, heart-throb Brad Pitt seems to have it all. Dotson Rader goes behind the headlines to find a star who is in love, but who has vowed not to marry until homosexuals are given the same right. “My life has been about big changes,” says actor Brad Pitt. “It’s always […]

Their love was forged in friendship and a shared loss, and for actress and author Tasma Walton husband Rove McManus has brought her a happiness she never knew, she tells Larry Writer. In her new novel, Heartless, Tasma Walton’s heroine’s heart is broken again and again. Her father abandons her. She is emotionally and physically […]

She may have her own public image problems, but nothing prepared Belinda Neal for her husband John Della Bosca’s confession of infidelity, writes Tracey Curro. It’s not easy to reconcile the gentle image of the well-groomed blonde woman posed wistfully by the window of a Canberra hotel room with Belinda Neal’s reputation as the volatile […]

Forget sparks, attraction and falling in love, when it comes to choosing a partner for life, women should apply the same criteria as when buying a house, according to a controversial new book. Reva Seth, author of the book entitled First Comes Marriage, argues that the underlying principles of Asian marriages are the key to […]

When Aussie cricket star Mitchell Johnson’s mother recently made ‘unkind’ comments about his fiancee, thousands of other young men probably groaned in embarrassed compassion for the guy! Having a mum who speaks out of turn; a permanently needy sister or maybe in-laws who won’t butt-out, is all part of being in a family. And an […]

Sarah and I have been best friends for as long as I can remember. Tall, lean and tanned it is not difficult to see why Sarah has never been short of male attention. She was constantly bombarded with offers of dates which she regularly accepted only to get bored of her prospective partner a few […]

I had been in three serious relationships with men who were fantastic. But as for meeting all the criteria and my sexual life – none of them went all the way. I met my current boyfriend through the most random of introductions, and, as often with life’s funny ways, he turned out to be that […]

A turbulent love life might cause more serious issues for women than just reaching for that tub of ice cream, box of chocolates or soppy DVD. Alarmingly, hypertension, abdominal obesity, high blood sugar, high triglycerides and low levels of HDL, or “good” cholesterol in women have been linked to the anger, conflict and hostility experienced […]